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DID ERIN GO OVER THE LINE WITH SUNDAY'S ANTI-BEGUM AD?
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By<b> Juan Montoya</b><br />What ever drove Erin Hernandez Garcia to approve a newspaper ad that charges a member of the Begum Law Group in San Antonio with barratry and then seeks to not only smear her opponent's son Alex in the JP 2-2 race with committing the "shadowy, illegal practice," but also to insinuate that if his mother Yolanda Begum if elected to the office she seeks, would surely commit a crime and be a "runner" for her son's law firm and to "put money in her son's pockets."<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtLqXr1yuTAMP4Y8pkODwMQ-ObFf-aGibMQYPHRi9xJ0BXgq8BPjKLNl5GXXzp6aotVgnZtHn623mV_H5DjNQfJ2PXRMZEe9Ghu7NrZdkyVvKhwo_6hqBVeS2J8wZBvqH6Ssrew4-oGoE/s1600/cross-the-line.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtLqXr1yuTAMP4Y8pkODwMQ-ObFf-aGibMQYPHRi9xJ0BXgq8BPjKLNl5GXXzp6aotVgnZtHn623mV_H5DjNQfJ2PXRMZEe9Ghu7NrZdkyVvKhwo_6hqBVeS2J8wZBvqH6Ssrew4-oGoE/s320/cross-the-line.jpg" width="320" /></a>She justifies her claims that this will happen by saying that the "Justice of the Peace courts handle thousands of small claims like the kind that Mr. (Alex) Begum handles and makes his money from. Every year it is recorded in court dockets the list of all these accidents including names, addresses and phone numbers of all the victims involved."<br />Now, any lawyer worth their salt knows that all documents entered into local courts (unless they're ordered sealed) are open to the public. Why would Alex Begum need his mother to be the Justice of the Peace to have access to them?<br />What Hernandez didn't say was that Alex Begum himself was never personally named in the lawsuit, that the disgruntled employee had been reporting for unemployment all the while she was working for the law firm without their knowledge, that she was charged with fraud after the state acquired the documentation provided them by the Begum Law Group, and that as part of the case, she was made to pay restitution to the state for the funds she acquired illegally.<br />That was eight months ago. Now, suddenly the case is brought to light in this race and voters are led to believe that if Begum is elected to the JP office that Erin wants so badly, Alex will have his mother running cases for him.<br />That is a far stretch from the truth, but then again, Erin doesn't appear to be running based on honesty or integrity, but rather, on her vaunted legal skills.<br />We understand that the attorney who took on the disgruntled employees lawsuit was not aware of her client's background and the context under which her client filed the lawsuit against he Begum Group. However, she now knows that the chiropractor's office that allegedly called the firm to ask about legal representation for one of the patients has also filed an affidavit saying they know nothing of the woman's claims and never called the firm seeking an attorney.<br />Now, as we all know, anyone can claim anything in a lawsuit. Whether those claims can be proven is another thing altogether.<br />Now, Hernandez is leading people to believe that Yolanda Begum â€" if voters elect her over Erin â€" will open the case files to her son and pay him back for the money he and the Begum family have invested in the campaign.<br />In other words, she is telling us that Begum will commit a crime and use the office of JP solicit clients for her son.<br />That's the stuff lawsuits are made of, and we understand that Erin may be getting a knock on her door from a process server in the very near future handing her a lawsuit with her name filling in the line where the defendant is listed.<br />This is not the first time the Hernandez campaign has resorted to associate with anti-Begum personalities with unseemly pasts. There was also her association with a Josefina Canales, who was under a restraining order in Houston, and who sought to communicate with Yolanda Begum trying to demand that she extend financial assistance to her children by a union with her late-husband's son.<br />In that case, the judge ordered the restraining order after a complaint was filed against her by a man in Houston who said Canales was attempting to extort money from him under a threat of sending compromising tapes and documents to his family and associates.<br />Now Hernandez is using the complaint filed by a plaintiff who has been caught defrauding the state and made to pay back restitution to smear Yolanda and her son Alex, who by the way, is not running for office.In her very own words in the offending ad: (We feel there's a trend here).<br />And if you thought Erin and her supporters were done with immigrant bashing, a cursory glance at another of her scorecard ads shows that while Erin was "born and raised in Brownsville" Yolanda "attended school in Mexico" and was born and raised "?," in Mexico, of course.<br />Hey Erin, have you noticed that the two GOP candidates for the new Congressional District 34 (both women, by the way) were both born in Mexico, immigrated to the United States and are now proud U.S. citizens running to represent you in the U.S. House of Representatives? How is that a minus? Are they somehow less because they are immigrants, or because they're Mexican women? Your ad doesn't specify what makes them less worthy than you.<br />Or, to take another example, if you ever get near being elected, do you now that the Cameron County Judge who will have a say-so in your office budget will be Carlos Cascos, a naturalized citizen who has no qualms about saying he was born in Matamoros?<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4WxZnD9Mc8TTw1jw7jsnqwcgfL9pIOGbfo4MVR3PPaMIzIje8yQjU226dWM6FT02-PgkLqiE8dRYyFomTCFP3rGojTHdagO_9ebEqDWfmDtGiU2uGOIxZf_hKkzbGlS9KmXM57HHvns0/s1600/erinad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4WxZnD9Mc8TTw1jw7jsnqwcgfL9pIOGbfo4MVR3PPaMIzIje8yQjU226dWM6FT02-PgkLqiE8dRYyFomTCFP3rGojTHdagO_9ebEqDWfmDtGiU2uGOIxZf_hKkzbGlS9KmXM57HHvns0/s320/erinad.jpg" width="320" /></a>We close this with some comic relief.<br />This morning we came upon Erin's politiquera mayor (Herminia Hernandez) at the parking lot across from the County Elections Office who complained about a mailout sent to local voters where the "unethical" acts by her, her father Ernie Hernandez, and her uncles (the Cadriels) were enumerated.<br />She said the ad was in poor taste and would backfire on Begum.<br />Why, we asked?<br />"Because the way they made her look is an insult to people with mental disabilities (<i>los pobres mongolitsos</i>, in her words)," she claimed. "<i>La gente anda indignada!"</i><br />This, of course, is funny beyond words. But something tells us that the<i> pobre mongolitos</i> aren't at the core of that protest. It's more like a very slim hook with which to seek sympathy for the faltering political fortunes of the Erin Hernandez candidacy for JP 2-2.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-4087678961572116617?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/07/did-erin-step-over-line-with-alex-begum.html
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FOR LINDA SALAZAR AND TRUSTED STAFF: A DAY TO HAUL VOTES FOR RUBEN
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiToR1pXTPNwBWvVoRBbl3sFjMevTXIUFQUeGgQPNNR4v6MjtDHbY1CsBpGcEplRJ_y5eIe0umAvKuYbnktEQ-uEx1z0e_LmoRq0sORb33QAL8H3D6n36Srdh0ozvIBNGd09ZkWLAZJUo/s1600/linda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiToR1pXTPNwBWvVoRBbl3sFjMevTXIUFQUeGgQPNNR4v6MjtDHbY1CsBpGcEplRJ_y5eIe0umAvKuYbnktEQ-uEx1z0e_LmoRq0sORb33QAL8H3D6n36Srdh0ozvIBNGd09ZkWLAZJUo/s320/linda.jpg" width="241" /></a></div>By <b>Juan Montoya</b><br /><br />If you went by the Justice of the Peace 2-1 office held by Linda Salazar today, you would be told that the judge was out on a JP conference and would not return until Tuesday.<br />In fact, her administrative assistant Sylvia Rodriguez was also out today on a day off and would also not return until Tuesday.<br />"I am new to the office so I couldn't tell you where the conference was," said the young woman behind the glass partition.<br />But we asked the Justice of the Peace 2-2 staff next door if Judge Kip Van Hodge was also absent at the conference and were told that the judge was in and that â€" after they checked with him in his back office â€" that he knew of no JP conference that any of the Cameron County JPs had to attend.<br />In fact, we also checked with the Texas Association of JPs and were told there was no such conference scheduled for today in the entire state.<br />Then we realized that today was the first day of early voting and that even if Linda had already secured her spot on the November ballot without an opponent in the Democratic primary, she was out on the campaign trail because her son Ruben Cortez, a former Brownsville Independent School District trustee, is a candidate in the runoff for District 2 of the Texas State School Board of Education against Celeste Zepeda-Sanchez, of San Benito.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs0uvaRmfj4BTnNFxey7GQjDpB52WBEaho_FpElxa1pUObHJ8IXH2WhXp4aNrd8JGDp3Ggys3T74A1a_5csv2ug5tdv-tSn6w5ptFLg1neqXL73GNr-im7LC4kJwq-_pO0yuMR3DMRDsQ/s1600/lindasalazar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs0uvaRmfj4BTnNFxey7GQjDpB52WBEaho_FpElxa1pUObHJ8IXH2WhXp4aNrd8JGDp3Ggys3T74A1a_5csv2ug5tdv-tSn6w5ptFLg1neqXL73GNr-im7LC4kJwq-_pO0yuMR3DMRDsQ/s1600/lindasalazar.jpg" /></a>We also happen to know that Linda uses this day to go haul in voters to the early voting sites from different places in the city, including one where we have some relatives. As a matter of fact, she is scheduled to pick up voters at one of the many clinics around the Valley Baptist Medical Center complex. She will show up, joking and joshing with endearing crudity and hand everyone marked sample ballots with a check on the oval next to her son's name on the ballot.<br />Now reports are surfacing that in the past month, those getting married in her office were handed Ruben Cortez's campaign material along with their marriage documents and that some of the couples had received calls from her office soliciting donations for her son's campaign.<br />Now, we know a mother's love is one thing, but to use the public offices and the time while on the county payroll to push for a relative's political race is quite another.<br />We hope that the powers that be put a stop of this kind of behavior from public officials and their employees. 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LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/07/for-linda-salazar-and-trusted-staff-day.html
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FARENTHOLD ENDORSES ADELA IN GOP DISTRICT 34 RUNOFF
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By <b>Juan Montoya</b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTrHz9NFwJg46m0r5krkOXEavgCUgj_piyzhpqoa4WYFfnzJmT8gDvd0aGXRoKVuHB8SOGXkeYSijzesbduLjnVoSrfK5XX5yXJ00A3Yrmv0NCIC-Wsb5efApn8K1v4g8rmK6FdstDIMg/s1600/adela1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTrHz9NFwJg46m0r5krkOXEavgCUgj_piyzhpqoa4WYFfnzJmT8gDvd0aGXRoKVuHB8SOGXkeYSijzesbduLjnVoSrfK5XX5yXJ00A3Yrmv0NCIC-Wsb5efApn8K1v4g8rmK6FdstDIMg/s200/adela1.jpg" width="150" /></a>U.S. District 34 Congressman Blake Farenthold waited until he got off the conference call with some 1,000 voters and today publicly endorsed his district field office administrator Adela Garza for the GOP nomination in the newly-created District 34 runoff election.<br />Farenthold said he and other GOP faithful have known Garza from her service on local public boards and that compared to the scant public service of her opponent Jessica Bradshaw, from Austin, picking Adela was a no-brainer.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWMGpj18GzKk0fBuRK2SMwNkdCah3yldgB9jyMn5upeP40fkYrr0H0ethcY-tw3ZBLQGhPjVVAph2JlWRmk6WyqwFMTqMAW6qefn5doMsIQZf1VmrT1_L1g7HmZ0XXdNwNVtoHZnVTeE8/s1600/Blake+Endorsement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWMGpj18GzKk0fBuRK2SMwNkdCah3yldgB9jyMn5upeP40fkYrr0H0ethcY-tw3ZBLQGhPjVVAph2JlWRmk6WyqwFMTqMAW6qefn5doMsIQZf1VmrT1_L1g7HmZ0XXdNwNVtoHZnVTeE8/s400/Blake+Endorsement.jpg" width="400" /></a>Her supporters also point out that Bradshaw's Tea Party inclinations make her unlikely to attract the crossover vote that Adela was able to provide Farenthold in the 2010 elections when moderate Democrats carried Farenthold over the top despite Solomon Ortiz's enlistment of Bill Clinton during the waning days of the campaign.<br />In fact, Bradshaw lent her support to Libertarian Ed Mishou in that election after she placed last of four candidates in the Republican primary.<br />"If Republican voters want to waste their vote, they can vote for Bradshaw," said one. "Farenthold's endorsement of Adela shows that the smart money is with Garza if there is going to be nay hope for victory in November."<br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6632638113940884026?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/07/farenthold-endorses-adela-in-gop.html
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